Elizabeth AyerSome hard truths for open source adoption from @bert_hubert
His #1 is also my #1:
"Whatever you’re building, you have NO margin to get away with being uglier/harder/more difficult than big tech"
and "If you don’t have people who deeply care about user-experience in your team, you’re doomed"
Open source has so many adoption barriers that only people who care a LOT will get over them. But honestly, most people don't have enough care to spare right now.
Worth a read.
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-the-open-world-must-do-better/
What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech - Bert Hubert's writings
Our societies and governments now largely run on American proprietary big-tech platforms. Many of us want to decrease this dependency, or even end it altogether. This article is part of a series of posts on (European) cloud challenges. Everyone in the open tech scene is full of good intentions and we all want to improve things, but mostly we are not succeeding. By our nature, we would like to build fun, open, federated, and standards-based things.
Ming 'Tommy' Tang
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